. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/377 
18 April 2011  
 (11-1992) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  EUROPEAN UNION
  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :   
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu
 
Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Food 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation on the authorisation and refusal of au thorisation of certain health claims made on 
foods and referring to the reduction of disease risk (6 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulation concerns the authorisation and 
refusal of authorisation of he alth claims made on foods and referring to the reduction of 
disease risk in accordance with Article 17( 3) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the 
European Parliament and of the Council of  20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims 
made on foods.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health and safety.  
The proposed measure concerns three health clai ms applications that have been assessed by 
the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).  For two applications , the assessments are 
considered to be favourable and therefore two health claims will be authorised for use on 
foods.  For one health claim, EFSA concluded th at it is not scientif ically substantiated. 
Therefore it doesn't comply with the conditions  set out in Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006, and 
will not be authorised for use on foods.  G/TBT/N/EEC/377 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the 
Council of 20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2006:404:0009:0025:EN:PDF
   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    June 2011 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU (about a month after adoption 
approx.) 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu
 
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
and at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/tbt/EEC/11_1120_00_e.pdf